Congress

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For the first time in recent memory a mass shooting can’t seem to leave the news cycle: the victims have become activists, putting a face on the event and ensuring nobody can brush it off. Every headline seems to proclaim This one is different, every think piece describing this as […]

Photo by Gage Skidmore The victory of Doug Jones in Alabama is without a doubt historic: not only is it the first time in a quarter of a century that Alabama has sent a Democrat to Washington, it gives Democrats a slim but very real chance of taking control of […]

Photo by Josue Mendivil Graduate students are worried; they’re angry; all around the country graduate students are assembling to protest a provision in the GOP tax bill that would count tuition waivers they receive in exchange for research and teaching assistance as income and tax them accordingly. A lot has […]

Photo by 401(K) 2012 With the Republican tax plan set to be possibly up for a vote on Friday and its future still entirely up in the air, it’s easy to get caught up in the partisan fight and forget one fundamental aspect of the situation: in the long run, this […]

It was inevitable that the atrocious, politically motivated Alexandria shooting of Republican members of Congress, among whom House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, would in turn become politicized. When it was revealed that the shooter, James T. Hodgkinson, not only had expressed strong antagonistic and violent opinions towards the Republican […]